Since its discovery in the 1960s, a vast and wide-ranging body of research has accumulated about the dopaminergic system.
Life's Rewards: Linking Dopamine, Incentive Learning, Schizophrenia, and the Mind
offers a broad synthesis of our current understanding of this chemical, addressing, amongst others, its intricate relationship with learning and memory, psychopathology, social co-operation, and drug abuse.
Aimed at students and researchers in neuroscience and psychology,
is essential reading for anyone interested in the relationship between dopamine and reward-related incentive learning.